Sentence examples for managed and commanded from inspiring English sources

The Crimean War was managed and commanded very poorly on both sides.

"He sometimes said things that upset unionists, occasionally had to apologise for his comments, but I do not doubt that he was sincere in working to end the violence on our streets and managed to command the attention of key politicians and civic leaders at a time when Northern Ireland was rocking from a series of brutal atrocities".

"One comes away flabbergasted," Kotkin writes, "by the quantity of information he managed to command and the number of spheres in which he intervened".

Although the rich world can afford to manage its fisheries, and commands the expertise of some of the world's best fisheries biologists, it has brought some spectacular failures on itself.

The Constitution also granted authority to the government to provide for the security of the nation, and authority to the President to manage foreign policy and command the military.

I was standing next to a French woman, who had managed to command one of the sales staff to run back and forth with new sizes for her, and to whom the woman at the neighboring mirror was acting in the role of Harriet Smith, loyal aide in Jane Austen's Emma.

At a time when many of his colleagues are using modern forms of media to communicate with their constituents ― e.g., Twitter ― Kennedy has managed to command viral headlines with little more than Southern wisdom and a Pelican State drawl, distilling events of the day into blunt terms regular people can understand.

Ms. Hong was perhaps miscast, and after years of honorable service her soprano sounded more managed than commanding.

Even when he managed to command attention on the domestic front, Mr. Bush faced challenges.

Cohen, 25 and the 2006 Olympic silver medalist, finished fourth, with 174.28 points, but still managed to command some of the spotlight.

Now, less than two weeks later, those bad-seed children had managed to command the full attention of her husband.